Corpus-Based Approaches to Constructional Change

The use of corpus data is in no way unique to work in Construction Grammar, let alone to the study of constructional change. Modern and historical corpora are used across the entire spectrum of linguistics, with very diverse methods and still more diverse goals (Lüdeling and Kytö 2008). The present chapter focuses on a growing body of research that uses the methods of historical corpus linguistics in a way tha